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Also from Stephen ONeil's FB group...a little over a year after Surfside 6 ended, co-star Margarita Sierra (Fountainbleau Boom-Boom Room songstress 'Cha-Cha O'Brien'), passed away tragically from post-surgical complications at the young age of 27...LA Times, September 11, 1963...a report on her...

Posted on Stephen ONeil's excellent 77 Sunset Strip Facebook page (if you love the WB detective series, you really should join, if you do FB)...Peter Brown comes over to the 77 Sunset Strip set in his Lawman attire to visit friend Roger Smith...and compare firearms... Newspaper article from...

From Stephen ONeil's excellent 77 Sunset Strip page on Facebook...Atlanta Journal, October 24, 1959...recounting a recent reception and party for the 77 Sunset Strip cast, hosted by Dean Martin himself at his fabled Dino's night club on Sunset Strip...click on image to enlarge... Warren...

Nice color photo of screen legend James Cagney trading guitar riffs with Roger Smith...Cagney was a mentor and good friend of Roger Smith, and indeed was credited by Roger with giving him his start in show biz...and they both were in Cagney's 1957 Lon Chaney biopic Man of a Thousand Faces and...

Published on Facebook via Vintage Los Angeles from a personal collection...one of the tabletop candles from Dino's and a nice picture on the street that I've never seen before...

Andra Martin has passed away on May 3 at the age of 86. She was very active at Warner Brothers appearing in their feature films (Up Periscope, Yellowstone Kelly, A Fever in the Blood) and nearly all of their TV series from 1958-62...3 episodes of 77 Sunset Strip (Lovely Alibi, Return to San...

Evocative and funny post, Russ, you really capture the essence (such as it is, but occasionally as good as the other WB Detective series) of Surfside 6! I love a lot of this show, often hilarious in execution, whether intentionally or just in being a lovely relic of early '60s TV pop culture. A...

Thank you Russ, Jeff, Rob and Neal for your comments and support. Much appreciated! 77 Sunset Strip S5E25, Flight 307 (Mar. 29, 1963)...Warner TV was trying a number of new approaches as the 1962-63 season wore on, and the sun appeared to be setting on several of their long-running series. The...

We've talked about how the late season 5 episode, Lady In The Sun might have been intended as a possible back-door pilot for a prospective WB series featuring Dick Davalos and Yvonne Craig. That episode certainly has some hallmarks of a back-door pilot, but there's little doubt about several...

Nice synopsis as usual Russ! I think I like it a little more than you do, but I do see your point, as some story elements just seem more contrived to stretch the story out to a 52 minute running time than to serve the essential plotline itself. And there's very little mystery. Still, It's one of...

Great to hear, Anne. TCM and the producers of the new documentary did a great job, and the effort and love behind it was obvious. BTW, I should have mentioned that the title is The King of Cool...which the guy certainly was! Also, for anyone interested in getting 11 of the best Dean Martin and...

By the way, did anyone record and watch the excellent newly produced documentary on Dean Martin that Turner Classic Movies premiered on Friday evening?

Kookie's Chinese alter-ego as seen in season one's The Hong Kong Caper... Roger Smith with his then-wife and occasional 77 Sunset Strip co-star, Victoria Shaw...

Efrem and Diane Brewster in a fine publicity photo for 77 Sunset Strip's season six, Dead As In Dude...January 31, 1964...of course, that same season, Diane Brewster was seen fleetingly as the murdered wife of David Janssen's Dr. Richard Kimble on season one of The Fugitive...

Efrem goofing around for a wardrobe test...

Stephen ONeal (a member here on HTF as well) posts a lot of great stuff on the Facebook 77 Sunset Strip group page. Here is some of it! Las Vegas Desert Sun, January 23, 1960...what Ed Byrnes was up to while under suspension by WB... Ed 'Kookie' Byrnes' big movie for 1965, Beach...

Yes, new cast regular and Kookie replacement/parking attendant Robert Logan. And I believe the publicity shot is for season four's The Chrome Coffin...

Yes, Hello Rob! Hope you are doing well. Russ, don't blame yourself for the quiet here. It's a shared interest and joint responsibility in keeping this discussion alive...I too could be doing more. In the meantime, here's a nice publicity photo for the season five premiere episode, The...

On the set in season three,1960, with lovely guest star Kathleen Crowley...she, understandably, being the center of attention, ha, ha...

Doug Mossman, a genuine Hawaiian who played Hilton Hawaiian Village security guard 'Moke' on all four seasons of Hawaiian Eye, has recently passed away at the age of 88...here's how his hometown Honolulu TV station reported it... He apparently was in possession of this original prop sign...

Richard Long with Eddie "The Baron" Cole...The Baron appeared in 14 episodes...you might have heard of his elder brother, Nat "King" Cole...

Roger Smith and Peter Brown comparing their character's WB issued sidearms, as deputy 'Johnny McKay' of Lawman visits the set of 77 Sunset Strip...the Smith and Wesson .38 Police Special is great for concealment, with possibly a higher double-action rate of fire, but clearly lacks the 19th...

For those who might be interested, the 1963 theatrical film Palm Springs Weekend, featuring loads of WB TV Stars, airs tomorrow afternoon (Tues. Feb. 2) on TCM...

Russ, my copy of Classic Cab (kab?) must be identical to your source, as the night scenes are impossibly dark on mine. Enjoyable episode nonetheless, as was your review.

From the 77 Sunset Strip page on FB, pictures taken by member Patricia Reeves at 8524 Sunset Strip, the breezeway, as it was in 2012...another snapshot in time for a block totally altered by redevelopment since then...

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